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Show mote markets; in "wats or temples, Lastly we have adventurous F. A where the silver bells tinkle from on Larson, a Bible In tbe Mon high; In opium dens and gambling gojian deserts. He travels eastward by houses, too, and remote villages, camel caravan from Kashgar, taking whose inhabitants live In t with him all necessary provisions, be houses, or tn trees In case of attack sides cooking utensils and barrels foi by hostile tribes. carrying water over the arid steppes Turning for a moment to the Wolves Ate Packhorse. Philippine group, we find On one occasion a native assistant the Rev. Mr. MUloy almost hewing his me of Larsons was set upon by robbers way through Impassable tropical who beat him'wnd took away hla horse growths, haranguing amazed crowds and saddle as well as his pack ol In fluent Tagalog at fiestas and cock animal Larson another books. Tabl( bought fights, and selling them the Scriptures In "Bui about 28 taels for $19, Urga In their own tongue. one the wolves ate where he wae this In the Interior of Cuba travels Senor 1906. tent. tethered 0111 side our camel-hai- r Torres, an old and tried Bible porter D then. Is a world labor of pa Here, whose 0 Ml adventures would fill another labor from book. Once, on coming back from Mo- tlent scholarship; of heroism fay ""miT113 and acumen business of the limelight; ron after having visited 68 towns, vilwell awaken that i'ini may organization, lages, and hamlets, Senor Torres sailAnd boat was capsized, and lashing him- the interest of the most blase. Dm work sums the are vast upon spent self to tmsr. for four days he and Bl his little crew oscillated between life The last revision of the Malagas! eur, an Peru of to Trained ble for the Madagascar natives cost Are Army China Explorers and death. Another agent, reporting '4from from the Interior of Bolivia, where $15,000; and the Chinese Bible ReachReaders sisrllJ the of Nations the to ded Many a there are no roads at all and wheeled first to last has probably cost $250,000 Taking tbe British and Foreign Bl Be Written on the Work of Circulating conveyances are Impossible, carried ble society of London, with the Amer lomance Might his Bibles 1,000 miles on muleback, bodies touchy while another covered 22,000 miles In lean Bible society and, similar rtlo. Best Seller. to is it say safe Worlds Wl fourteen months, selling 8.573 books throughout Europe, 1s a not than that less $7,000,000 year for $2,353. spent upon tbe work, and well ovei Paying for Bible in Eggs. HEN all Is said it is the ture ranging from lightning to tem$120,000,000 during the last century. V I Bible that is the world's pestuous seas. The American Bible One of the most Interesting workThe parent society in London main and society alone employs four or live hun- ers Is Mr. Archibald Forder, who from tains nearly 1,500 representative Un "best selling book mar- dred white men in savage or remote his headquarters In Jerusalem, car- - gulsts, missionaries and native assist I? that by a tremendous tremen-dnuiila lands, literally from Chia to Peru. takes gin. it successful novel to These In turn employ great numbers sell 40,000 or 60,000 copies of native colporteurs who travel InM fro j whereas this record land upon waterways, over mountains, HtUk. year, by the Bible in and through forests, with their packs Lily beaten world over! Last on their backs or with strange carathe cle day vans of laden men or beasts. 16000,000 copies, translated i4SB.U babel of nearly 500 tongues, Brave All Dangers. M mattered broadcast over the Tbe experiences of tbe Revs. Bear ioydot 40nmj and Turner In the Philippines would and British Bible so-e-s alone fill a volume of varied advene American or a led the way with nearly ture. Night and day on one tour they SMEI them. It is hard to realize traveled through almost Impassable jagnltude of vast a work. swamps in clumsy ox carts, and bareENICto; was 20 long years tn williams ly escaped drowning more than once SImdIus. savages of Tahiti in the while descending swift rapids on a jthe suZT he could produce even the built raft. rudely Testament in the islanders own fenouni In South America, from the Equator t DlaitiUtj hie. And old Bishop Schereschew--pento Cape Horn, the Bible carriers are dolife his of long on the march, and 'the political revoof Tick 4 te Bible into the Easy Wen-li,- " lutions, wars, storms, poisonous rep,;ect of Chinese, that opened up 'It UiiC and a thousand other obstacles tiles, ,t!an truths to 70,000,000 of the only Increase their enthusiasm. The 3iial people. Bible is carried into the camel-bai- r tebb: there was the romance of tents of the wandering Bedouin Arabs This mad went out to of and if these men are not able 3RS and to Syria, Gilbert group In read classical Arabic then .they ERS s cannl-ihimself among South Sea have Bibles In their own dialect for s Bible translator, with no which SutUi) they pay coined money being iMull en language at all, and no one to unknown to them in butter, eggs, h him. Day by day, this pioneer milk, horns, and brass ornaments. red words of common usage from Steamship and train are but tbe LDI utives' Ups and spent years com-gan- first Then step in transportation. verifying his written notes, come little sailing vessels among the iICIAN I coral islands of tbe Pacific; canoes tilting for Cannibals, a and the t. and houseboats for last he was able to put the Lord's fron, west coast of Africa; bullocks and ox er and a simple Psalm into the carts In South Africa; dogs and prt tongue. Later on came the Cos-an- d Fork On drivers above ao on. But tbe first edition sledges with ich t Bible is necessarily full of the arctic circle; patient asses; long necked supercilious camels; smartly a. More than $15,000 was recent-- ; le C for rough mountain ent in correcting the Llfu Bible stepping llamas nethe Loyalty Islands,' and it was passes; pack horses, it other ,4 FCEKK necessary to make the enor-- s gro porters, and a hundred uwtorBi number of 62,310 corrections, methods of transport, according to tbe as. File) s jt, after all, perhaps the most region. flief. The work of a colporteur Is one of of all are those recording WILLlA adventures of the vast army of terrible risk to life and limb. His Bi w Tort boat may be rs that distribute the Bibles aft-eare translated and shipped to through the rapids and gorges of the local depots. In all the continents giant Yang-tse- , only to come to grief rles Bibles to the Arab tribes east of ants, organized Into committees the be world. Bible crash-oon the rocks; whereupon he must un the Jordan, and In the Arabian des- world over. Their work Is supervised cargoes go from book in eggs. and financed headquarters elephants through the jungles load and camp upon the desolate ert. They pay for the com ifrlcs and Slam; or on queer little bank, getting what shelter he may From Bangkok, in Slam, we heir from where editorial the Rev. John .Carrington, who works posed of eminent philological expert! the whole of this remote empire. It meet every month. In one year suet must have been awkward when one of a committee will have matters before his buffaloes, hitched to a cart con- it in 200 different languages! In fact taining Testaments in Siamese and the diversity of the world's speech 1: Laos, suddenly bolted and scattered a staggering thing when one goes intc boxes and beds along the swampy It. Last year the Scriptures were sold In 20 different tongues in the Austria! track for half a mile. - Or, again, we find Mr. Carrington Empire, and 50 In Russia! Our hundreds of thousands of poly using tiger skins for the binding of his Bibles, and holding weird auction glot Immigrants are met on the very sales of his books under the tamarind threshold of the Land of Liberty &no trees of Samoi 'island, 300 miles down a Bible Is put Into their hands in theii the west coast of the Gulf of Slam, own tongue, whether. It be Greek ot says a writer In the New York Times. Magyar, Polish or Japanese, Gaelic 01 Croat, Arabic or Chinese. There are 1 can hut briefly touch on the adventures of William Laughton in his boat scores of languages into which the Biwhich he rented for ble has been done that you nevei on the Yang-tse- , 330 ytels, and then loaded up with Bi- heard of. Aside from the translations bles, only to run on some rocks and Into Cherokee and Choctaw, one runs become a total wreck. Indeed, wete one's eye in bewilderment down the it not for the skill of the native track, list, taking in such dialects as Ruk, fcijoiiijprjrjp? casts orsfszssjjrrfj: . yAzxx misers and "towers in handling the bam- and Ponape, Dlkele John, Samoglt, ers Or CffAM STARTING TOR Tiff JiTJSRIOR. Llocano, Bicol, Pangaslnan, Ta Mr. boo pumps it is possible that would have lyst his Bibles, galog, Arrawack and Sheetswa! if not his life. Forced to Change Phraeea. the book is In many Instances In a great number of cases an enthought to possess magical attributes. tire literature has to be formed and Among the Mbundu people. In Central a language reduced to writing before Africa, an old man bought a Bible and anything can be done at all. And said: Would It be safe for me to keep there are difficulties which you or I this book In tbe house, or muBt I build would never suspect. Thus when a place for it out doors?" translating the New Testament Into Nor are dark tragedies unknown Eskimo the phrase Lamb of God" among the Bible' pioneers. The Rev. had to be rendered "Little Dog," othH. J. Johnson once dropped down the erwise It would have been entirely In a houseboat laden meaningless to the little fur-clamen great .Yang-tswho have never seen a sheep! with Testaments. He was accompaniAnd of eourse there is no thought ed only by a trusted Chinese colporteur. For nineteen years nothing more of profit. Our Bible society sells a was heard of either. Then the tragic Gospel in his own tongue to a story came to light. Johnson and his Congo cannibal for the equivalent ot man had landed at an inland town to 2 cents; a New Testament for 6. and a sell their Bibles. But the first night complete Bible for 15 cents. All kinds a fire broke out and burned down of "money" are taken In exchange many houses with much loss of life. ranging from Ivory tuska to a basket at- TM ZtZPAAUt O' JlXvl 'TXARY AJliAi'iA70R AM? a few leopard skins, ot of bread-fruit- , Next day native mischief-makerArr'LUC&T jvA 7v.?. tributed the disaster to the evil In- even a baby camel. fluence of the Foreign Devil!" And Long before Tibet was opened by over the greal passes of the from a few tarpaulins, until help ar before the white man and his assistthe British, the New Testament was ' Mween Bolivia and Peru; or rives from Ichang or some other con ant could get back to their houseboat being printed In Tibetan at Ghoom mob' and mur8 n se the heads of cannlbul coolies slderahle town. high up In the Himalayas, and carried they were set upon by a dered with every circumstance of cru- back and forth to Lhassa by Hindu base of the Mountains of Robbery Is Frequent. Moon, near the source of old Fall)-Vie- ; and Buddhist traders. Only Abyssinia In Asiatic Turkey the patient Bible elty. on camel-bacacross the man with his pack on his bark Is oft Turning to bleak Siberia, we find and Nepal a re 'now closed to the Bible 'n of Nubia and Arabia en attacked by Kurdish brigands, or an unobtrusive hero and his wife sail- army; but It la thought that the old or in boats robbed In overcrowded khans, where ing on an open raft with half a ton of Emperor Menellk at leaBt will soon bamboo cables, he has perhaps stayed a night or two. Scriptures down the great Lena river. capitulate. At all events, he recently nv 1,10 tul,?ndou gorges of the Great vigilance was necessary," he sent a magnificent pair of elephant's delayed by the terrible roads and brok'tgu In Shun and the Laos says, for many murder had been tusks to the British Bible house lo en bridges. wild tribes, 1 would London, with a flowery letter 'n Am who do this work are states at this moment the Rev. John committed by the m. 11 to 2 a. m., while baric from "The Conquering Lion ol p. explorers who often fall by the Carrington Is traveling on elephants sleep from as soon as It Judah, Mer.ellk the Second, Emperoi Then watched. wire my by Veiling to wild beasts, disease, and through devious waterways of Ethiopia by the Will of God." 'Vli In re was dawn she lay down and slept. the Scriptures nacirculating ssvageg, and (he forces of boat, g! iPTURES READ sub-age- pile-buil- IN EVERY TONGUE anslations of holy writ or Peril Too Great for Those Engaged in Sowing the Bible. the-ma- st y Ey 't 9,000,-letwee- one-thir- mld-Paclfl- Her Vieit Spoiled. The Amiable Woman Did you v : She raised her blond head from his Joy your visit to Stratford-on-AvonPerfect Lady It wae perfectly I'toulder for a moment. , The Do you believe that exercise and horrid, thats Just what it was! Why, lotions and toilet preparations will Shapesprares tomb was guarded so Improve a womans looks? she asked. meanly that 1 didn't get. an opportunHe pressed her blonde curls back ity to chip off a single souvenir, or even to write my name on it!-L- ife, upon his chest "They couldnt Improve the looks of EXPURGATION. some women, he said. Whose," she asked. Well, yours and Violet Cochranes, for Instance," be replied thoughtlessly. I dont understand you, she said, raising her head for the second time and chilling him with a look. "We are not at all alike. I mean," he replied, turning her head for the second time and thinking quickly, that your looks couldn't be improved because they are perfect as they are, and that hers couldnt be Improved because no amount ot work could make her pretty. She sighed a great sigh of contentment and relief, while he drew a deep breath. A NARROW ESCAPE. ? In the Current Polly has a bathing ault Very short iyid very cute Shows a lot ot stooging! Queer sort of material Electric silk, she says they call It because It's shocking. Cleveland Leader. ACCEPTED HIS FATHERS ADVICE. Installments All Around. Patient (gloomily) I don't seem to d be gaining very fast, doctor. You can't exDoctor (cheerfully) pect to get well at one jump. You will have to regain your health gradually day by day sort of on the installment plan, as it were. Patient (brightening up) Well, doctor, if this thing keeps on much longer I'm afraid that you will have to collect your bill in the same way. Judge. Indo-Chln- 1 d 1 hard-heade- His Chief Reliance. Professor (to graduating class in college) Young men, there is one more question I would like to ask, and that Is, what books have helped you most in your struggles for an education? Young Scadds (promptly speaking up from the foot of the class) Dad's check book has helped me about as much as any of em so far. Judge. stir-tale- D y ble-lade- n man-haule- d n - . W e zav drts Jon: n,an-hulc- ( HE DID. "Johnny, doesnt your conscience tell you that you are doing wrong?" Yes, mother, but father said I wasnt to believe everything I heard. Punch. How He Catchee Them. How does it happen that you are -etalned in so many divorce cases? ' Well, replied the lawyer, seeing that you are not In my line. Ill tell you. I look over the marriage licenses, every morning and send my card around to the contracting parties. fudge. A Harrowing Result. "This agitation about Sunday shaving certainly makes one ashamed to look a stranger in the face. A good many natives certainly will change countenance over it If they have to shave more American. themselves. Balti- Strained Relatione. Didnt the cook like us? He And now, darling. I'll have one Euphmla Oh, yes she said that she liked us all right, but that we more kiss and then tear myself away. have to economize so that she couldnt The Mother (Interrupting) Sorry. Mr. Denton, but do you attach great respect us. Puck. Importance to the order of your proBLOODLESS. Edgar , gramme? Pick-Me-U- Dog 8aved His Ufa. "Yes," said the young man, penrlve-ly- , "a dog I once had saved my life. Tell me about It, said the young lady, with eager interest. 1 sold' him for five dollars," said the young man, when I was nearly starving." Chicago Journal. d well-mad- There are some pictures at the salon, children, which I dont wish you to see. Which ones, mamma? "I'll show you! La Sourire. e Unkind. George, dear, do you care for another biscuit?" asked the bride, "No, dear," replied the husband, qul I havent digested the first on etly. Detroit Free Press. yet" s Dons by Roosevelt. a man dowa Boy There' stairs wants to see you. Publisher Show him up. Office Boy Hes already boon: iies a nature realist Chicago Journal. Office Bill Skeetor Say, old min, youre .ocklng awfully wan and peaked. Been sick? Peaked One Nope; been hanging round cue of these rural resorts all summer and say, but it wts awful poor picking! 'hicago Dally News. . Had Sampled It. Van Antler Does the new butlee know where to keep the wine? Mrs. Van A. Judging from his ap pearanee, he thinks he ought to awy It around MtrsMf. Life. |